Institutional abuse and Evictions of Care Home Residents

Dear Isle of Wight Council,

1) Please supply information relating to the incidence of attempts
by care providers to evict residents in care homes - that is, care
providers giving residents notice to leave or otherwise attempting
to get them to leave without their involvement in the decision or
against their wishes.

Please indicate the number of cases you are aware of for the last 3
years, also indicating if and how your council responded to the
situation, and what was the ultimate result of the sitaution, i.e.
if and how the situation was resolved.

2) Please provide me with the number of instances your council is
aware of where either CQC or local authority safeguarding
procedures have substantiated allegations of insitutional abuse of
a Leonard Cheshire social care service user over the past 3 years.

Further, please provide anonymised information on the alleged
behaviour by Leonard Cheshire resulting in the conclusion.

Yours faithfully,

Doug Paulley

Dear Isle of Wight Council,

I note that you have not responded to (or acknowledged) this
Freedom of Information Request, and that the 20 working day
deadline has now passed. By law, you should normally have responded
promptly and by 26 July 2010

I wonder if you could please indicate the status of my request and
respond as soon as is practicable.

Thank you

Yours faithfully,

Doug Paulley